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1 online resource (ix, 350 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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I. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN EUROPE -- Markets and institutions in the rise of London as a financial center in the seventeenth century / Larry Neal, Stephen Quinn -- Paris Bourse, 1724-1814: experiments in microstructure / Eugene N. White -- No exit: notarial bankruptcies and the evolution of financial intermediation in nineteenth century paris / Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- II. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN THE AMERICAS -- Mortgage market in Upper Canada: window on a pioneer economy / Angela Redish -- Integration of U.S. capital markets: southern stock markets and the case of New Orleans, 1871-1913 / John B. Legler, Richard Sylla -- Transition from building and loan to savings and loan, 1890-1940 / Kenneth A. Snowden -- III. OTHER FORMS OF INTERMEDIATION -- Intermediaries in the U.S. market for technology, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Beyond Chinatown: overseas Chinese intermediaries on the multiethnic North-American Pacific coast in the age of financial capital / Dianne Newell -- Finance and capital accumulation in a planned economy: the agricultural surplus hypothesis and soviet economic development, 1928-1939 / Robert C. Allen -- Was adherence to the gold standard a "good housekeeping seal of approval" during the interwar period? / Michael Bordo, Michael Edelstein, Hugh Rockoff. |
| Summary |
This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Financial institutions -- Congresses.
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Financial institutions. |
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Economic development -- Congresses.
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Economic development. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books -- Conference proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Engerman, Stanley L.
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Davis, Lance E. (Lance Edwin)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Finance, intermediaries, and economic development. Cambrige, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2002031366 |
| ISBN |
0511121156 (electronic book) |
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9780511121159 (electronic book) |
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0511061722 (electronic book) |
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9780511061721 (electronic book) |
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0511070187 |
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9780511070181 |
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9780511510892 (ebook) |
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0511510896 (ebook) |
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9780521820547 (hardback) |
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0521820545 (hardback) |
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1280162546 |
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9781280162541 |
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0521820545 (Cloth) |
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